Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be

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Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be
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Author Jen Trynin
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Subject rock music, celebrity
Genre autobiography, nonfiction
Publisher Harcourt Press
Publication date
2006
Media typehardcover
Pages368
ISBN 0-15-101148-6
OCLC 60516744
782.42166/092 B 22
LC Class ML420.T833 A3 2006

Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be is a book by Boston, Massachusetts-based musician Jen Trynin. The book chronicles her short career as a musician on Warner Bros. Records, from her start as an indie rock musician in Boston to her promotion of her album Cockamamie after its release on Warner Bros.

The book was released to generally strong reviews, with Entertainment Weekly giving it an A−, [1] and Village Voice critic Robert Christgau saying that the book "did for [him] what Cockamamie never did until [he] read her book--grabbed and held." [2]

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References

  1. Entertainment Weekly, Chris Willman, 11 Mar 2006
  2. "Robert Christgau: Rewriting History: Jen Trynin". www.robertchristgau.com.